10 Basic Retirement tips – long forgotten! You have heard them all, have you not? Start early, save regularly, investing in fluctuating assets like equity when you are young – then shift to bonds by the time you are 55…etc. However what use is this advice if you are 53 already? And suddenly it dawned […]

Read More →

So now the mutual fund industry can sell its units abroad…and the limit is US $ 10 billion. Fairly obviously the media is excited (they need to do ONE story a day you see). 3 Journos tracking the industry wanted to know ‘what impact will the inflow of US $ 10 billion have on the […]

Read More →

Every time I talk about equity investing, I ask my audience to invest in 2 notebooks of 200 pages each. One notebook to write down what makes you buy / sell a share, what price you are paying, transaction charges, etc. Sometimes I also ask them to write what ‘gut’ feeling that they had. So […]

Read More →

All insurance plans will become taxable – this is terrible news for life insurance policy holders. How capital gains will be calculated will be a major issue. The cap gains calculation will have to be done by the life insurance company – after all they know all the transactions. So software guys enjoy..all life insurance […]

Read More →